B&S predecessor

[imperialbari]

I do not know exactly when B&S was created as a GDR conglomerate. My suspicion is that it happened around 1965 or a bit earlier. I knew that one of the predecessors (maybe the only one, so that it only was as a name change) was VEB Sächsische Musikinstrumentenfabrik Klingenthal.

And today I came by a practical illustration. The photos are not the best, but the architecture and the especially the thumb ring flange is the same as with B&S:

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... 0576437682

Klaus

[Rick Denney]

The photos are not the best, but the architecture and the especially the thumb ring flange is the same as with B&S:

As are the braces and the bottom-bow unmanning device, which is identical to the one on the mid-70's Symphonie I owned.

But the mouthpipe is much longer than in later years when the B&S fed it into the side of the fifth-valve rotor rather than the top, and it does not seem to have the graduated bore of the Symphonie.

Still, though, more resemblance than not.

Rick "thinking that 'VEB-anything' could not have existed before 1948 or so" Denney

[imperialbari]

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkseigener_Betrieb

hints that VEB’s existed in the Soviet occupation zone previous to the founding of the GDR in 1949.

Klaus